I'm now not seeing my post numbers adding up. I did the advanced search, and it shows 3170. My number on the Index is 3160. I added the above post, and the number stayed the same. Do replies no longer count as posts?

I will be working on things this weekend. I have a day job, and busy evenings. Please let me know what isn't working, but note that I certainly don't appreciate ad hominem comments.

I tried to get the site back up and running as fast as possible with styling that matches the rest of the site. I suspect that that's causing some of the problems, so what I'm going to do is start from scratch. I'll revert to the default style that ships with the software, and gradually work towards getting that to look like the rest of http://alphaDictionary.com. So the site might look generic this weekend until that has been completed.

That being said, there *will be differences* between this version of the software and the old version. The old version was at over five years old and needed to be replaced since it was no longer being maintained. (Running software that old leaves us open to security holes which could possibly take down the whole site.)

I'm also looking into the problems with the Goodword. If you're not receiving it, double check that goodword@lexiteria.com is in your address book. It should always be available on the web. We moved to a new server (for the same security reasons as above) and there have been some tricky problems sending email. We might move to a third-party email provider if we can't get the problems sorted out, but that will also take some time.

If your BBCode isn't working, make sure that you have "Disable BBCode" unchecked at the bottom of the post window (under Options.) I think that might have been part of the problem posting quotes and urls. There are also "Notify me when a reply is posted" options at the bottom as well, which might address some of the issues that were mentioned regarding notifications.

Sorry to keep beating up on you, Andrew, but this "upgrade" hasn't gone well.

This phpBB bit is a completely different posting page, I must say. Whatever. I hope it works.

On a different note, on the AlphaDictionary home page, I tried to search for my recent suggestion, ethnonym. All I got was a blank page. I do not expect that is was because there were too many results to display, so you may have yet another problem to deal with there.

Were you searching from the home page, or from the phpBB search box, which is now in the blue box at the top? The two search engines are different. One ties to Google and searches most of the site, and the other is built in to phpBB. I was able to find your suggestion with the phpBB search engine.

-Andrew S.

Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time. - Alan Perlis

Yes, I received your PM. Also, do you know how large your avatar image was? The default size was maxed out at 80x80. I've upped the maximum size to 100x100, so if your avatar is smaller than that, give it another try.

-A

Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time. - Alan Perlis

Were you searching from the home page, or from the phpBB search box, which is now in the blue box at the top? The two search engines are different. One ties to Google and searches most of the site, and the other is built in to phpBB. I was able to find your suggestion with the phpBB search engine.

[quote="ashaffer"]Yes, I received your PM. Also, do you know how large your avatar image was? The default size was maxed out at 80x80. I've upped the maximum size to 100x100, so if your avatar is smaller than that, give it another try.

[quote="ashaffer"]The phpBB search box is at the top to the right of the "Alpha Agora" logo. (Little magnifying glass in a box.)

Also, look for the "Disable BBCode" checkbox at the bottom if you want the URL, bold, etc. to work.

It will be blue until I can restyle it.

There is a "View your posts" link at the top which automatically does the advanced search that you were talking about. This was missing from the old template, I believe.

I'm not sure what's going on with the "unanswered posts" feature - is that behaving as expected?[/quote]

The phpBB search block is now visible, as long as we're blue.

Disable BBCode: does this mean disable it to make it work, or vice versa? When I respond to you, I'm told BBCode if OFF, with the OFF in italics. I can't do that here. Is that because you turned them off for this thread?